I have some stuff that wouldn't be suitable for a coffee table. A connecting rod with no top, a couple of pinions with no teeth, several small pieces of the cylinder block from a Cosworth BDD, some main bearings spun into foil....

I'd flip the last two but I honestly didn't think anyone would know what the hell I was talking about. On top of the fact that #24 = Bad + #48 = Bad, #24 Screwed me in Fantasy NASCAR because I picked him to wine the Pepsi 400, and my league pays at the half so I lost money and dropped out of cash.

Daniel Paulson wrote:Great Coffee Table! I once saw something similar done with a Jaguar V-12. The glass rested across the valve covers. It was beautiful.

The Jag engine looks rather nice once you get it out of the car (you can hardly see any engine under all the clutter IN the car).

The Lamborghini engine looks even nicer, but I don't happen to have a spare one to turn into a table.

I did run the idea of doing this with an MG engine - I race an oddball old MG with a double overhead cam engine - by she-who-must-be-obeyed. The cam covers would make a nice base for the plexi or glass top and I thought it would be a good looking conversation piece. The answer I got was that apparently a man's home is NOT necessarily his castle, and the true master of the manse would not countenance such an abomination!

I'm generally a #8 big thumbs up, #1 big thumbs up. If that fails #20 & #27 I find extremely amusing so that'll do as well. Used to be #15 big thumbs up but now #55 is fairly irrelevant + Toyota = Bad for a Redneck like me.

Must admit I havn't heard about the Jamacian body kits here in NZ. Or ever.

We have been in the Auckland MG Car Club for about 6 years now. Sue always wanted a TF or TD from way back. We settled for a 1997 MGF in BRG, and ran that for about three years until it got written off. We then got a new 2003 MG TF120 (the auto version) in Trophy Yellow (it is bright!) and have recently got a 1975 MGB GT Jubille Edition. We have owned this for about a year now, but it took a long time to get refurbished. I have not got photos of this car onto the web site yet, but you will find the F and TF here.

Are you suggesting that we have indulged in a bit of thread drift, Sir?

Guilty as charged!

I submit to suitable punishment.

Corkscrews? Where did THAT come into the picture?

From my perspective, the MG TF Coupe will be a British designed car (it must have been very close to production when MG Rover went belly-up), built by US people, backed by a LOT of US money, and only controlled by the Chinese. Not sure why they decided to go to the US to do this, but it probably has a lot to do with the odd billion or two dollars that US financiers are stumping up.

Just what engine they are going to use is another question though. If they can find a nice V6 to shoehorn into the back it could be interesting. Or maybe it is going to be front engine, rear drive configuration. Nobody knows yet. The Rover K4 engine was not certified for use in the US, but it may have been changed by the time that the Chinese engine plant is up and running. But wou I buy one? Probably not. I like the soft top at the present time. Even if they did make them in RHD.

Cheers,
Neil Courtney

'Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.' --- Anonymous.

Lovely cars, Bill. I regret that when I was there I was too exhausted to get a tour of the garage as well as the cellar. FWIW, I cut my teeth on road rallies in HS with a friend who drove a '56 MG A roadster:

but the car that I've always lusted after is my uncle's Armstrong Siddeley convertible :

At 98, he's now decided that he's too old to drive it, but he'll no doubt give it to one of his daughters. Oh, well, I can always dream...